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Gene Wolfe


(Gene Rodman Wolfe)
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Gene Wolfe was the author of two dozen novels and hundreds of shorter stories. He was best known for the three multi-part series The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, and The Book of the Short Sun, as well as for the acclaimed duology, The Wizard Knight. Over his forty-year career, he won the Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Reader’s Poll, the Rhysling (for poetry), and many others. In 1996, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Fantasy Convention, and in 2007 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
 

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
 
Novels
   Operation Ares (1970)
   Peace (1975)
   The Devil in a Forest (1976)
   Free Live Free (1984)
   There Are Doors (1988)
   Castleview (1990)
   Pandora by Holly Hollander (1990)
   Pirate Freedom (2007)
   An Evil Guest (2008)
   The Sorcerer's House (2010)
   Home Fires (2011)
   The Land Across (2013)
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Collections
   The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
   In the Wake of Man (1975) (with R A Lafferty and Walter Moudy)
   The Island of Doctor Death (1980)
   The Wolfe Archipelago (1983)
   Bibliomen (1984)
   Planet Engineering (1984)
   Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1985)
   For Rosemary (poems) (1988)
   Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
   Endangered Species (1989)
   Castle of Days (1992)
   Young Wolfe (1992)
   Strange Travelers (2000)
   Innocents Aboard (2004)
   Starwater Strains (2005)
   The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
   The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
   The Wildside Book of Fantasy (2012) (with others)
   The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories (2023)
   The Wolfe At The Door (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Empires of Foliage and Flower (1987)
   Memorare (2008)
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Non fiction show
 
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Gene Wolfe recommends
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Space Vulture (2007)
John J Myers and Gary K Wolf
"Read it and have a thrilling adventure..."
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Trash Sex Magic (2004)
Jennifer Stevenson
"I'd scarcely begun when I fell under the author's spell."
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Illumination (2001)
(Eiden Myr, book 1)
Terry McGarry
"Recommended without reservation to those who take their magic, and their relationships-seriously."

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Anthologies containing stories by Gene Wolfe
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1971) : The Island of Doctor Death [short story]
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1973) : Against the Lafayette Escadrille
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story]
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1974) : The Death of Doctor Island
Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1974) : The Death of Doctor Island
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1974) : How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1977) : The Eyeflash Miracles
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1979) : Seven American Nights
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1979) : Seven American Nights
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1981) : The Shadow of the Torturer
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1981) : The War Beneath the Tree
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1982) : The Woman the Unicorn Loved
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1982) : The Claw of the Conciliator
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1984) : The Citadel of the Autarch
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1984) : The Citadel of the Autarch
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1985) : A Cabin on the Coast
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1987) : Free Live Free
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1987) : The Soldier of the Mist
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1988) : The Urth of the New Sun
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1988) : The Soldier of the Mist
World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1988) : In the House of Gingerbread
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1989) : The Urth of the New Sun
World Fantasy Best Collection winner (1989) : Storeys from the Old Hotel
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Soldier of Arete
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1994) : Nightside the Long Sun
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1996) : Calde of the Long Sun
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1996)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1997) : Nightside the Long Sun
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1998) : No Planets Strike
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Knight
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Knight
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Wizard Knight
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2006) : The Wizard Knight
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2007) : Soldier of Sidon
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2009) : An Evil Guest
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2012) : Home Fires
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2014) : The Land Across
Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2016) : A Borrowed Man


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